ISBN: 9780865591646 - japan 2000: architecture and design for the japanese public (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Softcover, in Fine condition, no stamps writing or marks, straight spine without creases, looks like new, no flaws to note, a nice-looking book.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Used - Very Good. Open copy with light to mild wear, clean pages, tight binding.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 158 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name coorganized by The Art Institute of Chicago and The Japan Foundation. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence in the so-called 'bubble-economy' era of the 1980s. Japanese products - from automobiles to electronic equipmentwere sold in record numbers the world over, and Japanese brand names became synonymous with high quality. Now that the boom of the 1980s has given way to a recession, what is the country's designed and built environment like, and what are the factors that determine it? This attractive volume and the traveling exhibition it accompanies seek to address these questions. Essays written by experts in their fields are accompanied by impressive color plates to present Japanese architecture and design of the 1990s to a Western readership for the first time." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The historical background of postwar public architecture in Japan, by Hiroyuki Suzuki; Designing for the Japanese public; Plates, by Naomi R. Pollock; The growth of industrial design in Japan, by John Heskett; The history of Japanese design: a personal view, by Takuo Hirano; The cultural engineering of traditional local industry, by Tadanori Nagasawa; Plates, by Tetsuyuki Hirano and Tetsuro Hakamada. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Buen estado. 1998. Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence in the so-called "bubble-economy" era of the 1980s. Japanese products - from automobiles to electronic equipmentwere sold in record numbers the world over, and Japanese brand names became synonymous with high quality. Now that the boom of the 1980s has given way to a recession, what is the country's designed and built environment like, and what are the factors that determine it? This attractive volume and the traveling exhibition it accompanies seek to address these questions. Essays written by experts in their fields are accompanied by impressive color plates to present Japanese architecture and design of the 1990s to a Western readership for the first time. 158 pp. Numerosas reproducciones en color y b/n. Idioma: Inglés. La esquina superior derecha está un poco plegada, el resto e interior en perfecto estado. LIB 2H.…